The X Files Quotes
Man in black: No other object has been misidentified as a flying saucer more often than the planet Venus.
Roky Crikenson: Really?
Man in black: Even the former leader of your United States of America, James Earl Carter Jr., thought he saw a UFO once... But it's been proven he only saw the planet Venus.
Roky Crikenson: I'm a republican.
Man in black: Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus.
Roky Crikenson: I know... What I saw.
Man in black: Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing? Mister Crikenson, your scientific illiteracy makes me shudder, and I wouldn't flaunt your ignorance by telling anyone that you saw anything last night other than the planet Venus, because if you do, you're a dead man.
Roky Crikenson: You... can't threaten me.
Man in black: I just did.
Roky Crikenson: Really?
Man in black: Even the former leader of your United States of America, James Earl Carter Jr., thought he saw a UFO once... But it's been proven he only saw the planet Venus.
Roky Crikenson: I'm a republican.
Man in black: Venus was at its peak brilliance last night. You probably thought you saw something up in the sky other than Venus, but I assure you, it was Venus.
Roky Crikenson: I know... What I saw.
Man in black: Your scientists have yet to discover how neural networks create self-consciousness, let alone how the human brain processes two-dimensional retinal images into the three-dimensional phenomenon known as perception. Yet you somehow brazenly declare seeing is believing? Mister Crikenson, your scientific illiteracy makes me shudder, and I wouldn't flaunt your ignorance by telling anyone that you saw anything last night other than the planet Venus, because if you do, you're a dead man.
Roky Crikenson: You... can't threaten me.
Man in black: I just did.
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Blaine: (about Scully and Mulder) One of them was disguised as a woman, but wasn't pulling it off. Like, her hair was red, but it was a little too red, y'know? And the other one, the tall, lanky one, his face was so blank and expressionless. He didn't even seem human. I think he was a mandroid.
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Jose Chung: Aren't you nervous telling me all this? Receiving all those death threats?
Blaine: Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.
Blaine: Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.
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Jose Chung: And though we may not be alone in the universe, in our own separate ways, on this planet we are all alone.
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[In the posh apartment of a Madame]
Scully: Business is booming.
Mulder: I think you mean banging.
Scully: Business is booming.
Mulder: I think you mean banging.
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Scully: I called him Ahab and he called me Starbuck. So I named my dog Queequeg. It's funny, I just realized something.
Mulder: It's a bizarre name for a dog, huh?
Scully: No. How much you're like Ahab. You're so... consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or its mysteries, that everything takes on a warped significance to your megalomaniacal cosmology.
Mulder: Scully, are you coming on to me?
Mulder: It's a bizarre name for a dog, huh?
Scully: No. How much you're like Ahab. You're so... consumed by your personal vengeance against life, whether it be its inherent cruelties or its mysteries, that everything takes on a warped significance to your megalomaniacal cosmology.
Mulder: Scully, are you coming on to me?
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Mulder: Don't lay this off on me, you sneaky son of a bitch, you pulled me into this situation because you didn't have the courage to reveal the truth yourself.
X: Feel better now?
Mulder: You're a coward! You work in the shadows, you feed me scraps of information, hoping that I can piece it together. You make me risk my life, you risk my partner's life and you never risk your own! [Mulder aims and cocks his gun at X] You're not walking away from this.
X: You're risking your life right now. You failed. This is your success? Killing me? The truth is... you need me, Agent Mulder.
X: Feel better now?
Mulder: You're a coward! You work in the shadows, you feed me scraps of information, hoping that I can piece it together. You make me risk my life, you risk my partner's life and you never risk your own! [Mulder aims and cocks his gun at X] You're not walking away from this.
X: You're risking your life right now. You failed. This is your success? Killing me? The truth is... you need me, Agent Mulder.
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[Mulder shoves Cigarette Smoking Man against a wall in a hospital and points a gun in his face]
Mulder: You wanna smoke that, or do you wanna smoke on this?
Cigarette Smoking Man: Are you giving me a choice?
Mulder: I should shoot you right here, but they probably would be able to save you.
Cigarette Smoking Man: Do it, do it Agent Mulder.
Mulder: Or maybe shoot a bullet through your brain so you'd be bedridden for the rest of your life.
Cigarette Smoking Man: How is she?
Mulder: What do you care?
Cigarette Smoking Man: I've known your mother since before you were born, Fox.
Mulder: You wanna smoke that, or do you wanna smoke on this?
Cigarette Smoking Man: Are you giving me a choice?
Mulder: I should shoot you right here, but they probably would be able to save you.
Cigarette Smoking Man: Do it, do it Agent Mulder.
Mulder: Or maybe shoot a bullet through your brain so you'd be bedridden for the rest of your life.
Cigarette Smoking Man: How is she?
Mulder: What do you care?
Cigarette Smoking Man: I've known your mother since before you were born, Fox.
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Scully: Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only in contradiction to what we know of it. And that's a place to start. That's where the hope is.
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Scully: (Listing the evidence she's found at the scene while Mulder plays with a baseball.) The angle of movement and deeper indentation on the right side of the mark suggest a left-handed individual. I've collected soil specimens and although numerous shoe impressions remain from the sandlot game, I think a couple of stone casts would prove invaluable to the investigation. (Pauses for response; he ignores her) Meanwhile, I've quit the FBI and have become a spokesperson for the ab-roller.
Mulder: Smell that. (Holds the baseball in front of her nose.) It's perfume. God this brings back a lot of memories of my sister... All-day pickup games out on the vineyard. Ride your bikes down to the beach, eat bologna sandwiches. Only place you had to be on time was home for dinner. Never had to lock your doors. No modems, no faxes, no cell phones.
Scully: Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for two minutes, you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia.
Mulder: Scully, you don't know me as well as you think you do. You know I'm a working man and I live in a big city, but if I had to settle down? Build a home? It'd be in a place like this.
Scully: (Dryly) It'd be like living in Mayberry.
Mulder: Smell that. (Holds the baseball in front of her nose.) It's perfume. God this brings back a lot of memories of my sister... All-day pickup games out on the vineyard. Ride your bikes down to the beach, eat bologna sandwiches. Only place you had to be on time was home for dinner. Never had to lock your doors. No modems, no faxes, no cell phones.
Scully: Mulder, if you had to do without a cell phone for two minutes, you'd lapse into catatonic schizophrenia.
Mulder: Scully, you don't know me as well as you think you do. You know I'm a working man and I live in a big city, but if I had to settle down? Build a home? It'd be in a place like this.
Scully: (Dryly) It'd be like living in Mayberry.
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Sheriff: This is my deputy, Barney.
Mulder: Fife?!
Barney: (Sighing, frustrated) Pastor!
Mulder: Fife?!
Barney: (Sighing, frustrated) Pastor!
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Scully: (Discussing the murdered baby's long list of birth defects) Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child, and for Nature to turn so cruel... What must a woman go through?
Mulder: Apparently not much in this case, if she'd just throw it out with the trash.
Scully: (Sadly) I- I guess I was just projecting on myself.
Mulder: Why, is there a history of genetic abnormalities in your family?
Scully: No.
Mulder: (Grinning) Well, just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic makeup and a really high tolerance for being second-guessed and start pumping out the little uber-Scullys.
Scully: (Smiles back) What about your family?
Mulder: Aside from the need for corrective lenses and the tendency to be abducted by extraterrestrials involved in an international governmental conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster.
Mulder: Apparently not much in this case, if she'd just throw it out with the trash.
Scully: (Sadly) I- I guess I was just projecting on myself.
Mulder: Why, is there a history of genetic abnormalities in your family?
Scully: No.
Mulder: (Grinning) Well, just find yourself a man with a spotless genetic makeup and a really high tolerance for being second-guessed and start pumping out the little uber-Scullys.
Scully: (Smiles back) What about your family?
Mulder: Aside from the need for corrective lenses and the tendency to be abducted by extraterrestrials involved in an international governmental conspiracy, the Mulder family passes genetic muster.
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Mulder: Scully. (She stops walking and turns around. He smiles.) I never saw you as a mother before.
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Mrs. Peacock: Right arm was torn off. Saw it sitting there across my dead husband's lap. Boys took me home... sewed me up just like the family learnt in the War of Northern Aggression. Whole time, felt the same as if been making breakfast...They're such good boys.
Scully: Mrs. Peacock, they murdered Sheriff Taylor and his wife. And Deputy Pastor.
Mrs. Peacock: I can tell you don't have no children. Maybe one day you'll learn... the pride... the love... when you know your boy will do anything for his mother.
Scully: Mrs. Peacock, they murdered Sheriff Taylor and his wife. And Deputy Pastor.
Mrs. Peacock: I can tell you don't have no children. Maybe one day you'll learn... the pride... the love... when you know your boy will do anything for his mother.
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Melissa/Sarah: I am he that liveth and was dead. And behold, I am alive, forevermore. (Revelations 1: 18) ((Said in a whisper as Mulder and Scully look out over a misty field the woman claims her past life died in.))
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Mulder: At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages' way, and tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance an age ago. And in that act a prayer for one more chance went up so earnest, so... Instinct with better light let in by death that life was blotted out not so completely, but scattered, wrecks enough of it to remain dim memories, as now, when seems, once more, the goal in sight again. (Robert Browning, "Paracelsus") ((Mulder at both the beginning and end of the episode, as he looks at aged photographs in the field where he died in a past life, remembering that life.))
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The Cigarette-Smoking Man: Life... is like a box of chocolates. A cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable, because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with this undefinable whipped-mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while, there's a peanut butter cup, or an English toffee. But they're gone too fast, the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits, filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, and if you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is a... is an empty box... filled with useless, brown paper wrappers.
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The Cigarette-Smoking Man: They [the Buffalo Bills] will never win the Super Bowl as long as I'm alive.
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Lone Gunman: (About Cigarette Smoking Man, as he listens over the wiretap.) He's the most dangerous man alive, not so much because he believes in his actions, but because he believes these actions are the only ones life allows him.
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Scully: (to Mulder) You said it yourself, once - "a dream is an answer to a question we haven't learned how to ask."
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Scully: Don't you think the car might've been searched at least once already?
Mulder: Not by me.
Mulder: Not by me.
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El Camino owner: (Excited) Honest to God? A serial killer owned my car? For real?
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John Lee Roche: (Referring to the number of murders he confessed to) 13 sounds more magical.
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Scully: What are doing here, Mulder?
Mulder: Did I mention that Mr Betts had no head?
Mulder: Did I mention that Mr Betts had no head?
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Mulder: You check out how he died, I wanna see how he lives.
Scully: (Correcting him) Lived.
Mulder: Lived.
Scully: (Correcting him) Lived.
Mulder: Lived.
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Mulder: (Scully wants a desk; Mulder is trying to figure out how to fit it in their tiny shared office) We'll put 'em really close together, face to face... maybe we could play some BATTLESHIP!
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